Shevchenko Alexander (1883, Kharkov, 1948, Moscow)

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Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist, art theorist, avant-garde.
He studied at the Stroganov School of Industrial Art (1898 - 1908), the Paris Academy R. Julien, and E. Carriera (1905 - 1906), as well as at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1908 - 1909), where among his mentors AE were Arkhipov
and KA Korovin.

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He started as an impressionist and symbolist, passed through passion futurism, primitivism and pointless. His theory. After the 1917 revolution, he worked in the Commissariat of Education (1918 - 1921), taught at the Free Art Workshops (1918 - 1929). He took an active part in the device Museum of Artistic Culture in Moscow and Leningrad. Since 1941, head of the department of painting
the Textile Institute.
His works are in many museums, including the Karakalpak GMI im.I.V.Savitskogo.
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in 1926 in Moscow at the initiative of AV Shevchenko and his disciples.
united, proclaimed itself the task of versatile
pictorial quest. The company did not have a single creative person
its artists (RN Barto, BA Golopolosov, VV Pochitalov,
V. Kapterev etc.) often turned to contemporary themes,
using the methods of the various currents of European art
XIX - XX centuries. 1928, 1930). In 1930, ceased to exist.
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 1.Vyvesochny still life. Wine and Fruit sm.1913 82h86 PM (Tretyakov Gallery)
2. Ladies on the boulevard 122h111 1911g.Tretyakovskaya gallery
3. Bathers 104h102 sm.1919 Perm Museum
4. Hermitage Garden. 1907 Perm Museum
5. Batum. Saratov, museum.
6. Oriental motif. 1932.
7. Model.
8. Portrait of the poet 112h104 sm.h.m. 1913. (Tretyakov Gallery)
 9.Prachki. 1913. Oil on canvas. 60,3 x 70, 7
10. Pierrot and Harlequin (Brothers, jugglers Cyrano) 1920

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Interesting infrmatsiya, a good article about the work of Alexander Shevchenko. (EA)
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Message from Shevchenko to the genre of still life is not accidental. The first decades of the twentieth century were a time of flourishing of still life in Russian painting. Cubists used still lifes to resolve the narrow, purely formal problem - identify the texture, form, subject, coloristic construction, innovative plastic solutions. Shevchenko, as well as other artists of the early twentieth century, uses still life as a field for the formal and stylistic exploration, as well as heroes of his pictures are simple, ordinary things. But the objects of everyday life in pictures Shevchenko are exquisite images.

On the wooden table is a tray on it crumpled white tissue. The background is a wall of light gray-blue and pink shades, draped with heavy curtains on the left with a vague floral ornament. On the wall hangs a portrait in a simple frame (in the space of the picture got only the lower part). All this is not just some substantive form, taken by the artist for coloristic experiments and plastic, and, above all things to their utilitarian stored on the warmth of human hands to create a warm atmosphere at home, shelter, refuge. Avant-garde artists have left this to the flatness and decorative.

Painting and AV Shevchenko concentrates in itself the diverse trends of Russian Art 1910-1940-ies. Therefore, among his works there flatly decorative, built on formal principles of cubism, futurism and luchizma. But in the still lifes abroad 1910-1920-ies the artist departs from these principles. (VN Shalabaeva) for Shevchenko, the classical tradition is also very important. As opposed to extreme strain and exaggerated expression, common to many contemporary artists, he remains within the likelihood. It is characterized by constructive and generally, conventional images, laconic forms, local color, rhythmically solved plane. Shevchenko was characteristic of Cezanne relation to the painting as a special world, a living organism, all of which must be tightly fused and interdependent in the overall ensemble.

As befits a major, they are at the center, sometimes slightly shifted immediately draw attention to themselves, forced to admire his perfect form. To underscore the importance of these items, give them the solemnity, the artist depicts them against the background of a decorative fabric or a tray, and then they The artist draws free, but at the same time, a coherent game plastic forms, the beauty of rhythm. For works of Shevchenko has always characterized the precise fashioning metaphors. Rectangular table, shown with a promising reduction, responds in a rectangle pattern on the wall. Red glass, decided flatly on the form and local color, touching one corner with a white bottle with the label, is it a reflection of the contrast-contrast and color and spatial arrangement (both vertical angles or checkered in the same suit). Together they define the composition and color center of the picture.

The main objects are static, because keeping track, accentuate its core vertical. All others are on the move: scattered on the table apples, stuck in the folds of cloth, swaying curtain wall, the plane table on the items located on it, change the angle, as if pivoting upward, intersecting with the plane of the wall and ending his turn in a balanced portrait of a rectangle . But the main static objects are relative, as all the vertical in the picture - and a bottle and the decanter and glass, and side of the portrait on the wall, and a single pleat curtains - are parallel to each other, somewhat tilted to the left. Sense of imbalance, unbalanced artist avoids tipping two horizontal - the edge of the table and the top edge of the glass - just right. Towards the main verticals bows and the curtain to its contour, as though stopping just started falling. Plastic game creates a feeling of gentle swaying.

In the color picture of Shevchenko's decision also follows the principles of Cezanne. Using the ratio of flowers, he builds a space and volume. Most items are written flatly, voluminous, only apples and tissues. The depth of the space created by using color and svetlotnogo contrasts. Shining colored red and orange glass apples, contrasting with the rest of the beautiful plane solved in gray scale, though closer to the viewer, come to the fore. Still Life Shevchenko require careful contemplation. Then it becomes clear and plastic metaphors, and the beauty of form, rhythm, color, and expressiveness of the soft delicate, tender touches with a brush.

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The core of this group were artists Konchalovsky PP, Kuprin AV, Lentulov AV Mashkov, I., Falk, RR They solved the problem of constructing forms of color, identify the materiality of nature.

Cubism (French subism from the cube - a cube), avant-garde in art during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Was developing in France (P. Picasso, Braque J. and others) and in other countries. Largely based on synthetically-integrated system of scenic P. Cezanne and the experience of traditional African sculpture, Cubism representatives appealed to the construction of three-dimensional shapes on a plane with simple geometric forms (cube, cone, cylinder). and using the achievements of previous phases, tends to be harmonious decorative and colorful compositions.

Fauvism (from frantsuzsskogo fauve - wild), a trend in French painting (1905 - 1907). Fauves (Matisse, A., Mark A., Vlaminck AM, and others) share a common aspiration to the emotional power of artistic expression, to the spontaneous dynamics of the letter, open the color intensity and urgency of rhythm.

Futurism (from the Latin futurum - future), avant-garde European art direction in 1910 - 1920, mainly in Italy and Russia. For the painting are characteristic changes, nodules form, multiple repeat motifs, as if summing up the impressions obtained during rapid motion. The most important artists and futurists have been - U. Boccioni Dzh.Balla, K. Carr, L. Russolo, Dzh.Severeni. In Russia, Futurism at first manifested itself in the painting (the brothers J. and H. Burliuks, M. Larionov, N. Goncharova, Alexandra Exter, N. Kulbin, etc.), and only then - in the literature (V. Khlebnikov, B . Mayakovsky, Kruchenykh, I. Severyanin). (L. Polikovskaya) The world Futurists influenced the ideas of Nietzsche, Bergson's philosophy, rebellious slogans anarchists.

form and content of works.

Kazakova EA

www.radmuseumart.ru

by AV Shevchenko (Saratov State Art Museum Radishshev)

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Information from the site of the museum:
While a student at Kharkov realschule A. Shevchenko began to paint, making it possible admission to the Stroganov School. In early 1905 Shevchenko went to Paris, where he studied Carriera, attended many workshops and studios. By studying museum collections Shevchenko sketch. Out to the sketches in the Bois de Boulogne, Saint-Cloud, Versailles. In 1906 exhibited at the Salon of Independent. In Paris, met with Altman, Benois and Diaghilev. Passion for the Impressionists and Cézanne has made Shevchenko blind imitator, he sought his own style. At Alexander Shevchenko, talented teacher, studied R. Barto, B. Golopolosov, E. Zernov, V. Kapterev, K. Suryaev etc. The museum creative artist are on display 195 works of painting and graphics. http://museum.kr.uz/Russian_arts

1. 107h102 canvas Portrait of wife. 1905. Nukus Museum
2. Oil on canvas 123 x 100sm.Baba with vedrami.1914 Nukus, museum

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There is a good album, a collection of Karakalpakstan GMI im.I.V.Savitskogo. (A lot of reproductions of paintings by Alexander Shevchenko), I recommend to all fans of creativity Alexander Shevchenko. (EA)
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Publisher: AL: Avrora.288str.
The book is about the development of avant-garde in Russia, contains many photos, brief biographies of the artists and reproductions of their kartin.616 illustrations.
ISBN: 5-7300-0223-8

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Thank you, Eugene, for the theme of the artist, whom I dearly love

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Perm Art Gallery

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The exhibition was held March 24 - May 16, 2010.

Alexander Shevchenko (1883-1948) - painter, teacher - belongs to a constellation of artists, whose work marked the zenith of Russian Art 1910-1930-ies.
It works Shevchenko was presented to Stalin as an example of formalism. His jubilee exhibition in April 1933 at the Museum of Fine Arts was suddenly and prematurely closed after 10 days after opening day without explanation.
AV Shevchenko was not one of the discoverers and inventors of new ways, but he has accumulated a number of important trends, individually and uniquely bends them into his art. Aggravated artistic intuition helped him keenly perceive the main problems of the time, constantly searching for new means of expression, techniques, get involved in the experiments.

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AV Shevchenko received his artistic education at the Stroganov Art School (1898-1907, with a break), Paris (1905-1906) at the Academy R. Julien, and then in the studio E. Carriera. In 1907-1909 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, along with AV Kuprin, R. Falk, D. Burliuk, was particularly close with Larionov.
After the revolution, actively worked in the Commissariat of Fine Arts, taught in 1-X State Free Art Workshops (GSHM), Higher Art, organized the Museum of Artistic Culture. In the first half of 1920, solving the problem of easel paintings, where everything is subordinated to strict compositional system, he was guided by the legacy of Paul Cézanne.

In the late 1920's - early 1930's the artist again appealed to the primitive, for art Pirosmani, was influenced by the neo-classical European trends, Picasso, Derain, de Chirico, and his work has developed a variant of Art Deco, has been very organic for his talents.

 
They. 1933
 
In the late 1930's - 1940's he began to interest the problem of lighting - day and night, reflections of sunlight on trees and people's faces. Instead of conventional pictorial plane in the pictures appeared spatial environment, this softened crisp contours and volumes, the figures in his paintings are not conventionally composed environment, but in particular - surrounded by nature.

An extremely important component of creativity AV Shevchenko was the schedule. He got better in terms of development of graphic techniques of education at the Stroganov Art School, and not by chance from all the many schools, where he studied, the artist most admired precisely Art Institute. At some stages of the schedule becoming a leading example of an early, impressionistic and symbolist period (1906-1910).

Significant phenomenon in the work of AV Shevchenko 1930 became his monotyping - a kind of graphic works, when the matrix of glass or metal applied to the image with oil paint, and then made a print on paper.
The proposed exhibition shows the evolution and the highest creative achievements of the wizard. The present exhibition includes more than one hundred and fifty paintings and drawings from the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin and several private collections.
http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/ru/ca...hibitions2148/

1.Batum. 1931. Oil on canvas. 123 x 98,5 cm
2. Soldier Flirt (Soldiers with the maid), 1915-1916.
 2.U them. 1933. (Part of).

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Auction Sotheby's (2007) works from private collections ..

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Auction house MacDougall's (2009)